Holly Walrath

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Holly Lyn Walrath’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Fireside Fiction, Luna Station Quarterly, Liminality, and elsewhere. She is the author of Glimmerglass Girl, (Finishing Line Press, 2018). She holds a B.A. in English from The University of Texas and a Master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Denver. She is a freelance editor and host of The Weird Circular, an e-newsletter for writers containing submission calls and writing prompts. Find her online at her website or on Twitter.

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Holly WalrathDeveloping a daily practice of writing can be helpful. When you start to understand that writing is a practice, not a chore, you automatically begin…moreDeveloping a daily practice of writing can be helpful. When you start to understand that writing is a practice, not a chore, you automatically begin to come to that place of writing each day. It helps to be consistent, but all writers are different. Finding what works for you and sticking to it is more important than following the age-old advice of "write every day." (less)

Holly WalrathMy favorite thing about being a writer is when I get to connect with someone who has read my work and found something that spoke to them. Often it's…moreMy favorite thing about being a writer is when I get to connect with someone who has read my work and found something that spoke to them. Often it's something unexpected, something I never would have seen in my work. I think literature is interpretable for a reason, so that readers can find meaning that might help them in some way.(less)

I'm teaching an online workshop with Gemini Ink in October on The Writing Life. Essentially, we'll cover the four major stages of taking a project from idea to publication. There's a whole lot to cover here, but if you're a newbie this is a great class for you. It also works nicely for those who are looking to reinvent their writing life and add more structure to the chaos.

Franny Choi is a queer, Korean-American writer with a killer voice. Be sure to listen along to the author’s Spotify playlist as you read this arresting work of short poems. Choi’s work eschews standard ideas of structure, content, & language forFranny Choi is a queer, Korean-American writer with a killer voice. Be sure to listen along to the author’s Spotify playlist as you read this arresting work of short poems. Choi’s work eschews standard ideas of structure, content, & language for a short piece of work made up of general mayhem & feminist deconstruction of the bot culture SFF is obsessed with. Titled after two popular sayings, Choi explains how she wanted to twist expectations with this powerful collection: “I hoped the double resonance of “death by chocolate” (capitalism making women eat things) and “sex machine” (James Brown making liberatory joy through art) would translate into something that feels lively and complicated and also fun to say” (Adroit Journal). These poems delve into the intersection of gender, feminism, technology, and sexuality in a lush syntax that will leave you hitting Google for more of Choi’s words. This work was on my list of nominations last year, and I’m stoked to see that it’s back on the list because I’m basically in love with DEATH BY SEX MACHINE....more

“Each day Marda gets closer. The sub circles coral reefs off the coasts, where mermaids are said to like the colors of the schools of fishes, and train them to swim around their necks like jewelry or live behind their ears, beneath their long hair. Sometimes mermaids like shallow places, but mostly they like the dark and the beautiful, uncharted, abandoned, soulless parts of the undiscovered world.”
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Holly Walrath,
Pulp Literature Issue 7 Summer 2015

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